I’ve tested many foldable devices in my time as one of Laptop Mag’s lab gremlins, and that has left me with a general dislike of the format. Reviewing Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Fold 16 Gen 1, I went in expecting to be disappointed. I’ve never had the joyful experience of my colleagues when dealing with a foldable phone, tablet, or laptop. I just couldn’t see how the format would be anything but annoying.
It’s fair to say that the ThinkPad X1 Fold 16 had its work cut out for it if it was going to impress me. Going into it, I had a feeling that I wouldn’t hate the X1 Fold as much as I’d hated most foldables that came into the testing labs. But I wasn’t expecting just how much more I enjoyed the X1 Fold’s capabilities while using it to handle some of my day-to-day work.
